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What is our answer?
All events and things, good and evil alike, are included under
the Universal Reason-Principle of which they are parts- strictly
"included" for this Universal Idea does not engender them but
encompasses them.
The Reason-Principles are acts or expressions of a Universal
Soul; its parts [i.e., events good and evil] are expressions of
these Soulparts.
This unity, Soul, has different parts; the Reason-Principles,
correspondingly, will also have their parts, and so, too, will
the ultimates of the system, all that they bring into being.
The Souls are in harmony with each other and so, too, are their
acts and effects; but it is harmony in the sense of a resultant
unity built out of contraries. All things, as they rise from a
unity, come back to unity by a sheer need of nature; differences
unfold themselves, contraries are produced, but all is drawn into
one organized system by the unity at the source.
The principle may be illustrated from the different classes of
animal life: there is one genus, horse, though horses among
themselves fight and bite and show malice and angry envy: so all
the others within the unity of their Kind; and so humanity.
All these types, again, can be ranged under the one Kind, that of
living things; objects without life can be thought of under their
specific types and then be resumed under the one Kind of the
"non-living"; if we choose to go further yet, living and
non-living may be included under the one Kind, "Beings," and,
further still, under the Source of Being.
Having attached all to this source, we turn to move down again in
continuous division: we see the Unity fissuring, as it reaches
out into Universality, and yet embracing all in one system so
that with all its differentiation it is one multiple living
thing- an organism in which each member executes the function of
its own nature while it still has its being in that One Whole;
fire burns; horse does horse work; men give, each the appropriate
act of the peculiar personal quality- and upon the several
particular Kinds to which each belongs follow the acts, and the
good or evil of the life.
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